# Execution staff feared IV site may have ‘blown’ during Christa Pike’s execution attempt

https://mins.news/en/item/112059

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-23 03:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://bit.ly/4i2pYBn

> Christa Pike’s attorney wrote in a court filing that Tennessee execution team members repeatedly failed to establish working IV lines in her arms. They warned that some veins may have ruptured before she was injected with pentobarbital.

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